Movie Of The Week - 6

I will be caught up with this one until the day before I start work, so everyone has a lot of movies to watch, I hope that you all enjoy them!

This weeks movie is...

Now you didn't think that you could go every week without running into my awesome taste for horror did you? These films are a little harder to find than most, but well worth the search!

Synopsis:
The corpse of Waldemar Daninsky [Paul Naschy] bears the mark of the werewolf (a pentagram on his chest), so two disbelieving coroners remove the silver bullets to prove to themselves that there are no such things as werewolves. Of course, the werewolf is immediately revived and kills the two coroners on his way out the door.

Back in Paris, college students Elvira [Gaby Fuchs] and Genevieve [Barbara Capell] are completing their "final thesis." They've tracked down the tomb of the a 15th century Countess Wandessa d'Arville de Nadasdy, a supposed witch and vampire. The Countess's tomb is said to lie near a small village somewhere in northern France, so the girls load up their car and go in search of the place. Short on gas, daylight, and directions, however, they accept an invitation to stay at the rustic (meaning 'no lights, no phone, no motorcar') countryhouse of writer Waldemar Daninsky. Over a dinner of cold cuts and wine, Waldemar reveals that he's writing a book about the history of gothic churches and monuments, but he falls silent when Elvira mentions her search for Wandessa.

Directed By:
León Klimovsky

Cast:
Paul Naschy
Gaby Fuchs
Barbara Capell
Yelena Samarina

Some Interesting Trivia:

All of Naschy's films take place on Walpurgis night...if you live here in the States you have no idea what this is. Walpurgis Night is like Halloween, it is celebrated in several countries in northern and central Europe on the night of April 30. Festivities include setting large bonfires and playing pranks on neighbors and strangers. It was also, according to belief, was the night when the devil was abroad-when the graves were opened and the dead came forth and walked.

Naschy almost wasn't cast in his most famous role of Waldemar Daninsky, which he had played in all his other Noche "night" films. The German producers of the film stepped in and demanded Naschy reprise his role.

This was the first film Leon Klimovsky did with Paul Naschy.

Patty Shpard regretted taking the role of vampire, Countess Wandesa Darvula de Nadasdy. She was concerned about how a significant role in a horror film would look on her growing credits.

After an initial screening Naschy told Klimovsky he was dissatisfied with the production. However this is Naschy most successful film in Spain to date.

After seeing the film people would call out greetings to Naschy when they saw him on the street shouting "Senor Walpurgis"!

One day Naschy was taking a stroll in his wolfman make-up while waiting for a shot to be set up in a cemetery. Absentmindedly he stepped out from behind a headstone where an old lady was laying some flowers. She let out a scream of terror and almost had a heart attack on the spot. She even tried to sue the producers.

This film was released over in the states as Werewolf Vs The Vampire Woman

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